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...tente means the relaxation of tensions between nations. By that definition, the détente era in Soviet-American relations is over. Since Soviet troops poured into Afghanistan in December, Washington's policy toward Moscow has been almost exclusively punitive: a boycott of the Olympics, a partial embargo on grain sales, tightened restrictions on high-technology exports. The SALT II treaty that Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev signed a year ago this week may die on the Senate shelf. After more than a month in office, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie has yet to meet with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. Muskie...
...symposium is one of four such intellectual forays TIME has sponsored so far this year. In January, prepping for the campaign year, the Nation section traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with members of Congress, political advisers, party professionals and pollsters.In March editorial staff members convened with experts on Soviet-American relations to assess the present parlous state of affairs between the superpowers. Last month TIME Reporter-Researcher Barbara Dolan organized a one-day colloquy on the plight of American families. Twelve outsiders, knowledgeable on 'such problems as child abuse, domestic relations and aging, joined 22 people from TIME...
...almost any topic, Reagan finds and stresses a connection with the Soviet-American rivalry. Israel is "a strategic asset" and "a deterrent to Soviet expansionism." He advocates military assistance to the anti-Marxist guerrillas of Afghanistan and Angola. Cuba represents "the threat of Soviet influence spreading through the Caribbean," and Nicaragua is a bear's paw threatening U.S. interests in Latin America. He even plays down the Sino-Soviet split, emphasizing that whatever the quarrels between China and the Soviet Union, "both are Communist, and both want to take over the world...
...experts. Allen, who was also chief foreign policy adviser in the Nixon campaign twelve years ago, before being elbowed aside by Henry Kissinger, has formed a 90-member "foreign policy and defense advisory group." The committee includes Democrats as well as Republicans but is uniformly hard-line on Soviet-American relations...
Vance's message was not in tune with the times. The seemingly endless crisis in Iran, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the rash of leftist rebellions in Central America restored to fashion the traditional balance-of-power politics; the Soviet-American shouting match of the past year has all but drowned out the North-South dialogue...